· Private foundation
Abrahamson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESH AIR FUND | $100,000 |
| ADIRONDACK COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| HORIZONS AT SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHRIST IN INDIA | $5,000 |
| WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| WILTON LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CT LEAGUE OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $1,500 |
| ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST | $1,500 |
| GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND | $1,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY | $1,000 |
| ELM CITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +184%
- TATHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +49%
- AAALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- WHWILTON HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $8k
- ATATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FSFWSF SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WRITING REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Friends of Christ in India Inc ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FUGEES FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Wilton Land Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
- Who funds MARIN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPUS 118 HARLEM SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abrahamson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abrahamson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wilton Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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